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About the Role
Legend is hiring a Financial Accountant to join the Financial Reporting team. This role ensures the business has accurate, reliable, and insightful financial information while improving reporting, analysis, and data usage. The Financial Accountant will own key areas of the financial reporting cycle, focusing on the balance sheet, P&L, and cash flow to ensure accurate, well-controlled, and high-standard financial outputs. This position offers the chance to combine hands-on financial reporting with analysis and continuous improvement in a fast-paced, multinational listed business experiencing significant growth.
Responsibilities
- Take ownership of key areas of the monthly, quarterly and year-end financial reporting cycle, ensuring accurate and timely delivery.
- Prepare, review and improve balance sheet reconciliations, supporting schedules and working papers, investigating and resolving issues where required.
- Analyse financial performance across the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow, identifying trends, investigating variances and highlighting risks or opportunities.
- Build, improve and automate reporting processes using Excel and other data tools, reducing manual effort and improving the accuracy and efficiency of financial reporting.
- Use data and financial insight to challenge existing processes and identify opportunities to simplify, standardise and improve how Finance operates.
- Partner with Finance Operations, FP&A and wider Finance teams to improve the quality, consistency and usefulness of financial information.
- Support audit, governance and control activities throughout the financial reporting cycle.
- Contribute to wider Finance projects and improvements as the function continues to evolve and scale following Legend's acquisition.
Requirements
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent).
- Relevant experience within financial reporting, management accounting or a similar industry finance environment, with the ability to independently own areas of the reporting cycle.
- Strong understanding of financial reporting fundamentals and experience working across the balance sheet, P&L and cash flow.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret financial data, investigate issues and turn information into meaningful insight.
- Advanced Excel skills and confidence working with complex financial data and large datasets.
- Demonstrable experience improving reporting processes, automating manual tasks or finding more efficient ways of working.
- Excellent attention to detail with a strong focus on accuracy, controls and producing high-quality financial information.
- A proactive and curious mindset, with the confidence to challenge existing processes and take ownership of problems through to resolution.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across Finance and the wider business.
- Experience within a fast-paced, multinational or listed environment, or exposure to post-acquisition change, would be advantageous but is not essential.
Skills
- Excel
- Data analysis
- Process improvement
- Financial reporting
- Balance sheet reconciliation
- P&L analysis
- Cash flow analysis
- Power Query
- Alteryx
Location
- Holborn, London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Relevant experience
Education Level
- Qualified accountant (ACA, ACCA, CIMA, CPA or equivalent)
About the Company
- Legend is a world-leading sports and gaming media network, reaching hundreds of millions of visitors a year.
- Legend is now part of Genius Sports.
- Together, Legend and Genius Sports are combining audience, brands, and product expertise with real-time data, technology, and capabilities to create the next generation of fan-facing media and advertising.
- With 20+ years of proven success, Legend is the world's leading Sports and Gaming marketing company.
- Legend has 600+ employees across 22+ countries.
- Legend is a fast-paced, multinational listed business undergoing significant growth and change.
Equal Opportunity
- Legend is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- We believe different perspectives help us grow and achieve more.
- We are dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team- which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences.
- If you require any reasonable adjustments throughout your application process, please speak to your Talent Partner or contact the team on talent@l1.com, and we'll do all we can to support you.